23 Films & TV Shows Set In Cyprus
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Pause
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 2010sTrapped in the misery of an oppressive marriage, a middle-aged woman finds refuge in a fantasy world of vindictive violence — Trapped in the misery of an oppressive marriage, a middle-aged woman finds refuge in a fantasy world of vindictive violence. Soon, reality and fantasy start to blur.
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The Stopover
🇨🇾 CyprusAt the end of their tour of duty in Afghanistan, two young military women, Aurore and Marine, are given three days of decompression leave with their unit at a five-star resort in Cyprus, among tourists. But it's not that easy to forget the war and leave the violence behind.
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Shadows and Faces
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1960sShadows and Faces tells the story of a young girl who is separated from his shadow puppetry performer father during the ethnic conflict between Cypriot Greeks and Cypriot Turks in 1963.
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The Last Homecoming
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1970sSummer at Cyprus seems at first like a gift for Alexandra (Maria Kitsou) and Orestes (Hristodoulos Martas), who travel from Athens to spend the season with Orestes' parents at their seaside residence. However, they soon become enveloped in the turbulence of local politics between Greeks and Turks after getting involved with a family production of a Euripides play.
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Akamas
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1960sOmeris, a Turkish Cypriot boy, grows up with Greek-Cypriots in the innocent years of his homeland. He has been taught that human beings have no differences between them, whether they call themselves Greek or Turk, Muslim or Christian. When he falls in love with a Greek-Cypriot girl, he realizes that the world is not as he imagined it to be.The game of love has many surprises in store for him. Destiny ordains that he fight so that he can stay with his beloved, at a moment when the people around him are moving in exactly the opposite direction, towards separation and partition. If he doesn't want to be defeated he must fight the absurdity of fanaticism that is invading his personal life and is trying to crush it.
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Munich
New York England 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇫🇷 France 🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇩🇪 Germany 🇬🇷 Greece 🇮🇹 Italy 🇮🇱 Israel 🇱🇧 Lebanon The 1970sThe world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next. — During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
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Kingdom of Heaven
🇫🇷 France 🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇮🇹 Italy The 12th CenturyBe without fear in the face of your enemies. Safeguard the helpless, and do no wrong — After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
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Under the Stars
🇨🇾 CyprusLouka, whose parents were killed in the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, persuades a beautiful smuggler to take him over the border to visit his village, where a magical experience awaits them.
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Othello
🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyEnvy, greed, jealousy and love. — The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.
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Otello
🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyBased on Shakespeare's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon". Believing Otello has promoted the fast-rising Cassio over himself, Iago plots to destroy both Cassio and Otello. Iago convinces the jealous Otello that his beautiful wife Desdemona is unfaithful, and that Cassio is her lover. Jealousy is followed by tragedy, then retribution, "Has Heaven no more thunderbolts?"
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A Walk in the Sun
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1970sTore Andersson is a depressed 43 year old sport journalist living in Stockholm. His girlfriend has left him so he decides to take a vacation in Cyprus.
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Attila 74: The Rape of Cyprus
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1970sThe film that gives an answer to the questions of all the Greeks about the culprits for the Cyprus' tragedy. Junta - Turkey - America. — An indictment of the protagonists in the Cypriot civil war.
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Sin
🇨🇾 CyprusWhen Orestes returns to his Greek island homeland after several years in London to settle his late father's estate, he begins an affair with Elena, who is married to his childhood friend Yanni. Their adultery soon leads to violence and tragedy.
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Rendezvous with Dishonor
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1950sIn the wake of terrorist bombings, senseless assassinations and widespread destruction in Cyprus, the attempts of local government officials to negotiate peace is thwarted by renegade guerrilla leaders. The World Council steps in and decides that the United Nations Secretary should visit Cyprus and encourage peace. But this is precisely what the fanatic priest Evagoras had hoped for...soon he will have the U.S. government and the Greek government at his mercy - when he unveils his most devious plan!
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Othello
🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyThe greatest Othello ever by the greatest actor of our time — The 1965 version of the Shakespeare play.
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The High Bright Sun
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1950sThis story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule, and one man tries to serve both justice and his own heart.
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Act of Reprisal
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1950sLove story set against the backdrop of Cyprus' struggle for independence from the British in the 1950s.
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Private Potter
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1950sA military mission is interrupted when a soldier claims that God had appeared to him in a transcendental vision.
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Exodus
🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine The 1940sBased on Leon Uris' novel, this historical epic provides a dramatic backstory to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, in the aftermath of World War II. Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman), a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
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Barabbas
🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇮🇱 Israel The 1st CenturyThe story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.
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Othello
🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyOrson Welles' magnificent screening of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy — When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, her old suitor Roderigo takes it hard. He allies himself with Iago, who has his own grudge against Othello, and the two conspire to bring Othello down. When their first plan, to have him accused of witchcraft, fails, they plant evidence intended to make him believe Desdemona is unfaithful.
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Othello
🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyEven without the benefit of sound, the 1922 German adaptation of Othello seems more operatic than Shakespearean. This may be due to the casting of Emil Jannings, to whom restraint and subtlety were strangers. Werner Krauss, of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari fame, is on hand as the duplicitous Iago. Appearing as the unfortunate Desdemona is Lea Von Lenkeffy, better known as Lya de Putti. Produced on an elaborate scale, Othello may not be true to the letter of Shakespeare, but is undeniably a smorgasbord of visual delights.
